Cotton-seed planter.



RI H. PRIOR.

` COTTON SEED PLANTEB. PPPIUATION FILED 1111211.14, 1911.

1,044,082. 1 Patented Nov.12,1912.

vPa'fiiiivr OFFICE.

` ROBERT n. PRIOR, or

ESOM HILL, GEORGIA.

co'rToN-snnn PLANTER.

Specification of Letters' Patent.

Application filed September 14, 1911.

Patented Nov. 12,1912.

Serial No. 649,344.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. PRIoR, citizen of the United States,residinor at Esom Hill, in the county of Polk and State of Georgia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Seed Planters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to seed planters, more particularly to devices ofthis class employe for planting or dropping cotton and similar seeds,and has for one of its objects to im rove the construction and increasethe egiciency and utility of devices of this character.

IAnother object of the invention is to pro. duce a device of thischaracter wherein a certain redetermined quantity of seeds is depositeat certain predetermined intervals, and means provided whereby theperiods of time between the droppings may be regulated and controlled.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwherein pro'- vision is made for opening a furrow, dropping apredetermined quantity of seeds at pre etermined intervals, and coveringthe seeds after they have been deposited.

Another object of the invention is to pro-, vide a device ofthischaracter wherein provision is made for controlling the number ofseeds which are deposited ateach dropl y ping action.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwherein im rovedmeans for transmitting and reversmg the motion of theseed-elevating mechamsm is provided.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certalnnovel features of construction as hereafter shown and described, andthen specificallypointed out in the claims, and in the drawingillustrative of the referred embodiment of the invention: F1 re 1 is aside elevation of the im- Corresponding and like parts are referred toin the following description and indicated in all the views of theaccompanying drawlng by the same. reference characters.

s The improved device comprises a supportmg frame 10 carrying a drivingaxle or shaft 11 and a combined driving and carrier wheel 12, the wheelbeing preferably located centrally of the frame transversely. The frame10 is preferably formed of two members spaced apart andA convergingtoward their forward ends and supporting a clevis device 13 and withfurrow coverers 14, at the rearwardly diverging ends of the framemembers. Connected to the frame 10 near its forward end is a furrowopener repof a plurality of slots or recesses 16 and clamp bolt 17whereby the depth of the furrow is controlled.

Mounted upon the framelO rearwardly ofthe wheel 12, is a seed receptacle18 having a hopper bottom 19 and a rearwardly inclined back 20. Mountedfor rotation beneath the frame 10 is a lower elevator supporting shaft21, while a similar and upper elevator supporting shaft 22 is mountedfor rotation through the receptacle 18 .rearwardly of the inclined back20. Belt pulleys 23-24 are carried respectively by the shafts 21-22 andsupport an endless belt 25having small seed elevating buckets 26. Thebuckets move upwardly through a suitable aperture 27 in the bottom 19 ofthe receptacle and return rearwardly of the receptacle as shown.Connected to the bottom 19 and projecting over the aperture 27 is abrush 29 with relatively long flexible bristles which are displaced bythe upwardly moving buckets and operate to prevent seeds from fallingthrough 29 thus serves as a guard to .prevent the escape of the seedswhile at the same time permitting the buckets to move upwardly supply ofseeds, as hereafter explained. EX- tendingv transversely of thereceptacle 18 in advance of the endless bucketed belt is a block 30having another brush 31 mounted and displace the bristles and pick uptheir' to thereon at 32, the bristles of the resented as a whole at 15and adapted to be adjusted'vertically through the medium the openingbetween the buckets. The/brush latter brush bearing yieldably againstthe l edges of the bucket and operating to brush oil' any surplus seedswhich may cling thereto. This device will be found useful and importantwhen cotton and similar seeds are being planted, as the shreds of cottonwhich cling to vthe seeds cause them to adhere slightly, but byemploying the stripper brush 31 all, surplus seeds which may be carriedup will be brushed of so that only the quantity of seeds which arereceived within the ried over the upper belt pulley .24 and are conveyedthence to the furrow and in advance of the coverers 14.

The vaxle 11 is provided with a Crank 34 at one end, while the shaft 21isprovided with a similar crank 35 at one end. Connected to the frame 10midway between the shafts 34-21 is a stud 36. The pins of the cranks34-35 arecoupled'together by a connecting rod 37, and the rod isprovided with an intermediate slot 38 through which the stud 36 passes.By this simple arrangement as the wheel 12 is rotated by contact withthe ground when the seeder is moved forwardly, vthe rotary motion of theshaft 11 is communicated to the shaft 21, but in reverse order throughthe co-action ofthe cranks 34-35, and the slotted rod 37 and the stud36, so that while the wheel 12 moves forwardly over the ground thebucketed belt 25--26 will move in the proper direction through the seedbox.

Mounted for vrotation through the seedbox near its upper edge is anothershaft 39 carrying a yhub 40 provided with a plurality of radial fingers41 spaced apart.

The shaft 39 is provided with a vrelatively long crank 42 externally ofthe receptacle and connected by a rod 43 to the pin of the crankv 34, sothat the rotary motion of--the crank 34 will impart an oscillatorymotion to the shaft 39 and thus cause thejfngers 41 to vibrate withinthe casing and agitate the seeds and prevent them from becoming clogged.By this. simple arrangement it will be obvious that as the machine isldrawn forwardly over the ground a furrow will be opened in advance ofthewheel 12 and the latter will travel in the bottom of the furrow whilethe-seeds will be dropped at predetermined intervals in the furrowrearwardly of the wheel, while the coverers 14 will restore the earth tothe furrow and thus cover the seed. The furrow opening, seed depositingand covering devices are operated by one machine and by one operation 5Suitable handles 44 are connected to the receptacle 18 and extendrearwardly of the machine to enable the latter to be guided.

construction of the arm 37, which consists -in substituting for the slot38, va sleeve 45 mounted for oscillation on the pin 36 and through whichthe member 37 is slidably disposed, the oscillating sleeve performingthe same function as the slot 38. The buckets 26 are arranged to beadjust- 4ably disposed upon the belt 25 so that they may be spaced at agreater or lesser distance apart to lncrease or decrease the timebetween each delivery and thus control the distance between the hills ordroppings of the seed. For the purpose of illustration the belt 25 isshown provided with a plurality of apertures 46 and eachv bucket is 80provided with-a bolt 47 `to pass through one of the apertures of thebelt. By this means the shifting of the buckets is a simple process, andany required number of buckets may be employed and spaced at any disvtance apart within the range of the apertures within the belt, tocontrol the interl vals of time between which the buckets are caused todeposit their seeds.

The improved device 1s slmple in con- 90 struction, can be inexpensivelymanufactured and of any capacity, and adapted without materialstructural changes to seeds of various kinds, but as before stated, is

designed more particularly for planting cotton seeds.

Having hus described the invention, what 1s claimed as new is:l

v 1, In an apparatus of the class described,

a seed receptacle 'having anvopening in its-'100 bottom and a lowerbrush .extending partly over said opening, an ,endless belt eonveyelincluding spaced buckets and operating through the aperture in saidreceptacle and in engagement with said lower brush, a support extendingtransversely within said.re ceptacle', an upper brush including a headmember swinglngly connected at one edge to said support and movablybearing by'its bristles against. the buckets of the endless 1.10

belt.

2. In'an apparatus of the class described, a supporting frame, an axlesupported on said frame and having a crank, a bearing wheel carried bysaid axle, a seed receptacle carried by said frame, a lower shaft havinga crank and a belt pulley, an upper shaft hav-- lng a belt and throughsaid seed receptacle, a plurality of buckets carried by said bolt, aseed spout for receiving the 'seed 120 from said buckets, a studextending from said frame, a rod pivoted at its ends to said axle crankand to said conveyer shaft crank, and Vmeans for swingingly 'andslidably coupling said rod to said stud.

3. In an apparatus of the class described,

a seed receptacle having an opening in its bottom, an endless conveyerincluding a plurality of buckets spaced apart and operating buckets aremoved just before they are disthrough the opening in said. receptacle, acharged. discharge s out arran ed to receive the seed In testim'onwhereof I aix my signature from sald uckets, a rush projecting over inpresence o two witnesses.

' ROBERT H. PRIOR. [1.. s.]

l said aperture and through the bristles of Y o y which saidbuckets'pass, and another brush Witnesses: mounted to swing within saidreceptacle J. E. Dummy,

near the top thereof and against which the D. L. Ronnn'rs.

It is hereby certied that in Letters Patent No. 1,044,082, grantedNovember 12, 1912, upon the application of Robert vH. Prior, of EsomHill, Georgia, for an improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters, errors appearinthe printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2,line 118, after the word pulley insert a comma and the words an macllessbelt leading over said eltypulleyc; and same page, line 1.20, for theword bolt read bell; and that the said Letters Patent should be readwith these corrections therein that the same may conform to the recordof the case in the Patent Oice.

Signed and sealed this 21st day of January, A. D., 1913.

[SEAL] c. C. BILLiNGS,

Acting 'ommz'ssz'oner of Patents.

rality of buckets spaced apart and operating buckets are moved justbefore they are disthrough the opening in said. receptacle, a charged.discharge s out arran ed to receive the seed In testim'on whereof I aixmy signature from sald uckets, a rush projecting over in presence o twowitnesses.

' ROBERT H. PRIOR. [1.. s.]

l said aperture and through the bristles of Y o y which saidbuckets'pass, and another brush Witnesses: mounted to swing within saidreceptacle J. E. Dummy,

near the top thereof and against which the D. L. Ronnn'rs.

It is hereby certied that in Letters Patent No. 1,044,082, grantedNovember 12, 1912, upon the application of Robert vH. Prior, of EsomHill, Georgia, for an improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters, errors appearinthe printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2,line 118, after the word pulley insert a comma and the words an macllessbelt leading over said eltypulleyc; and same page, line 1.20, for theword bolt read bell; and that the said Letters Patent should be readwith these corrections therein that the same may conform to the recordof the case in the Patent Oice.

Signed and sealed this 21st day of January, A. D., 1913.

[SEAL] c. C. BILLiNGS,

Acting 'ommz'ssz'oner of Patents.

